On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:15 AM, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Bex scripsit: > >> It's probably sufficient to specify that the base-chronologies are >> relative to *some* ("preferred"?) coordinated standard time, and >> perhaps note that this is defined as UTC for all the predefined ones. > > Done. > >> Non-earth-based chronologies look like an ideal way to test the >> generality of the proposal, but it's up to you to determine the >> scope of the proposal. Joda time doesn't seem to deal with these(?) > > Presumably the MTC chronology would have era (corresponding to a > particular Mars mission), sol-of-era, minute-of-sol, second-of-minute, > and instance fields.
I used to work on a web calendar system, and during the Spirit mission had added an easter egg where you could switch your timezone to Martian :) I believe I used the Darian calendar. We should definitely make this possible in any Scheme date library we standardize. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
